Lowest Of The Low Take Toronto
Friday November 23, 2001 @ 03:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

Lowest Of The Low

Salesmen, cheats, liars and assorted eternal fatalists, rejoice! The Lowest Of The Low will be playing five (!) Toronto shows in the second week of December. For LOTL fans, this is the equivalent of enduring a drought for 10 years only to wake up one morning in the middle of a raging flood.

After a successful summer show at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre and the announcement that Ron Hawkins had pulled the Rusty Nails, it almost seemed like a given that the band would be getting back together to play a string of dates. But, because this is the Lowest Of The Low that we’re talking about, nothing is ever a "given."

For now, fans should still be content with the knowledge that a new release is on the way early next year, and that the band has decided to play a club crawl to hype its release (they did basically the same sort of thing with Hallucigenia in 1993). The five shows will take place the week of December 10-15 in various clubs throughout the downtown Toronto core. General admission for each show is $15 at the door (does the phrase "come early" mean anything to you?), but there will be some advance tickets for the Horsehoe and Lee’s Palace shows.

If you’re a mega-fan, you may want to spring for one of only 40 "Nothing Short of a Club Crawl Laminates" which go on sale today at Soundscapes and Rotate This. It’ll set you back $50, but it’ll guarantee you admission to all six shows and get you in the door for a fancy-schmancy VIP reception on December 15.

The first of the club shows, at Clinton’s Tavern, celebrates the tenth anniversary of the release of their legendary Shakespeare My Butt album (their debut, which makes up approximately 50 percent of their canon). The band will be playing the entire CD in its entirety for the show.

And as if that’s not enough, the band’s long, long-awaited release, the live/studio disc Nothing Short Of A Bullet, will be available for purchase at all of the shows. It’s not scheduled to hit stores until January 15, so if you want to hear it before the new year, you’d best show up — or risk yielding to pricey eBay temptations later. First single is slated to be "New Westminster Taxi Squad."

Here’s the complete rundown of the Low T.O. shows: